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Every time I am in a car, I turn on the radio. I love the radio. It’s free, and if you find a good station, you are constantly listening to songs that you love. However, in order to pay for this free service, ads are a huge part of using the radio. I cannot stand ads. Usually when I am driving, I am only going a short distance, so ads take up all, if not almost all, of the time in the car. I have a couple back up stations, but there are some times where it is all ads, or no good music is playing at all. I think that this is why more and more people are turning away from the radio. Now people typically play their own music from their phones. The radio industry is kind of dying off. I find this especially sad because the radio has been such a massive part of our history. The first radio station came out in 1920, and it is preemptive insane that radios are still used over 100 years later. So it it time to move on from radios?

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  1. AnonymousMay 16, 2018 at 7:17 PM

    On my drives to school I listen to the radio too. It is sometimes very infuriating when all of my favorite stations are playing ads. One of my favorite stations boasts that it goes the longest time without ads, and while I can listen to the radio in the morning without ads, on my way home the station is basically turned into one large informercial. Which can sometimes be annoying, so then I just turn to Spotify. It is sad that radio is dying out. There are many things I really enjoy to listen on the radio

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